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Sophie Duker: But Daddy I Love Her review – desperately seeking ‘delulu’

Inspired by joint therapy sessions with her father, the standup’s joyful show has vivid portraits of her ‘borderline-delusional’ parents

The Guardian - UK

Mark Simmons’ ship joke named funniest of Edinburgh fringe

Comedian was in top 10 on three previous occasions – here are this year’s best gags, as voted for by a public panel

The Guardian - UK

Fringe benefits: 10 of the best shows to catch at this year’s Edinburgh festival

From ruminations on life, love and being Keir Starmer to dance-theatre unpacking toxic masculinity, here’s our pick of 2024’s ‘Burgh necessities

The Guardian - UK

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Edinburgh Fringe 2024: From Hannah Gadsby’s return to two Gwyneth musicals, our ultimate guide to what to see

With more than 3,500 shows, the world’s biggest arts festival is back at full power. But what’s worth running up and down the Royal Mile for? Tim Bano picks the best theatre and comedy to see

The Independent UK

On my radar: comedian Sophie Duker’s cultural highlights

The London-born standup on a magical Netflix animation, Joe Lycett’s activist T-shirt, and how she fell in love with pole dancing

The Guardian - UK

‘We’ve got to keep fighting’: Simon Pegg, Sophie Duker and Greenpeace on Glastonbury’s climate activism

As the general election looms, activists are campaigning harder than ever to get MPs to wake up to the climate crisis. Mark Beaumont reports from the Greenpeace Field at Glastonbury

The Independent UK

Taskmaster's top 10 episodes ranked: from House Queens to Mean Beans

Let the mayhem begin

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Keith Brymer Jones: ‘I’ll walk past a building site and blokes shout: “Oi, love your crying on TV!”’

The Great Pottery Throw Down judge on having Brad Pitt as a fan, his punk attitude to life and why he loves a pub quiz

The Guardian - UK

Brighton Comedy Garden review – Rose Matafeo and Phil Wang are in fine form as they battle the gulls

Matafeo offers up heartbreak hilarity and Wang brings his dad jacket to the charming outdoor event with the nastiest hecklers on the south coast

The Guardian - UK

‘I like to slag off the headliner’: what is it like to do standup at a music festival?

Comedians Sophie Duker and Jacob Hawley discuss how to draw revellers away from pop stars while Glastonbury’s Charlotte Lang explains what it takes to win over the cabaret tent

The Guardian - UK

Inside London’s LGBTQ+ comedy scene: from its first permanent queer comedy club, to the names to watch out for

With the city’s pop-up scene headed in hugely exciting directions, it feels high time London got a dedicated club for queer comedy

Evening Standard

‘Mess up the choreography and your Black card is revoked’: Sophie Duker’s honest playlist

The comedian stans hard for Mika and knows the perfect song to spice up a funeral reception, but which pop hit does she think ‘should be on baby TV’?

The Guardian - UK

Killing Leprechauns: Irish satirist mines British ignorance in comedy podcast

Oliver Callan questions British comics on Irish history and current affairs and finds general response is obliviousness

The Guardian - UK

Fringe audiences are 99% white? As a South Asian critic, I found Edinburgh’s screaming lack of diversity hugely troubling

Outdated terminology, racist gags, almost entirely white audiences … with just a few fantastic exceptions, fringe shows do not feel like they are for people like me

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Edinburgh fringe 2022 week two roundup: from a sheep shearer in peril to pure Hollywood escapism

Howls of rage from Hong Kong to Malta vie with King Lear in the metaverse and Sophie Duker on the labour-saving benefits of threesomes

The Guardian - UK

Edinburgh festival 2022: 50 shows to see

Phil Wang makes a heroic return, Ian McKellen stars in a balletic Hamlet and Sophie Duker is gleefully carefree. Here are our picks of the festival’s comedy, theatre and dance

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: Keeley Hawes is on a mission in sci-fi drama

All is not well in an idyllic town where all women of child-bearing age become pregnant. Plus: Kaley Cuoco’s timing is impeccable in The Flight Attendant. Here’s what to watch today

The Guardian - UK

Sophie Duker: ‘You have to laugh at yourself – you’ll never be in the right for long’

Having defeated impostor syndrome, the standup is taking on Taskmaster and returning to the Edinburgh fringe with ‘sexy and chaotic’ new show Hag

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